Maleficent: the power of evil, harmless curse (critic)
The suite of Maleficent is an average fantasy film, which does not hurt but has little ambition.
M6 will devote his Friday evening to Evilfrom 9:10 p.m., first broadcasting the most recent, The power of evilthen the original film at 11:15 p.m. When it was released in 2019, the editorial staff of First had been a little disappointed thereafter, when the first opus worked well, moving away from the cartoon to offer a new story to the cinema. Above all, Angelina Jolie was spectacular in the main role, while here, it is in the background, being robbed of the show by the big bad guy embodied by Michelle Pffeifer. Here is our review of Maleficent 2… while waiting for news from n ° 3 ?
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Jessica Rabbit said “I’m not bad, I’m just drawn like that“, and the first Evilreleased in 2014, seemed to result from this replica by funny in a funny way the Disney archetypes: his original bad guy, the model of all the bad guys of the studio, evil, became the mother-in-law in spite of herself Princess Aurora, victim of violence Men on women -without black fairy wings was a barely veiled metaphor for rape. On arrival, Evil did not go much beyond his status as an order film signed by a specialist in SFX (Robert Stromberg). What are we left? The terrifying figure of Angelina Jolie and the very beautiful partition of James Newton Howard.
Five years later, The power of evil is still signed by a yes man -In this case, Joachim Rønning, co-director of the little exciting last episode of Caribbean pirates. At the partition, James Newton Howard was replaced by Geoff Zanelli, another yes man since he was playing to make Hans Zimmer on the last Caribbean pirates. The power of evil : a film of second knives, replacements? Not quite, since the script is co-written by Linda Woolverton, Disney veteran for whom she wrote Beauty and the beast,, Aladdin,, The Lion King,, Mulan… but also the first Eviland both Alice in Wonderland Live action. It is credited here with Noah Harpster and Fitzerman-Blue Micah, writers of the future A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood With Tom Hanks as a TV presenter of a legendary kindness. Okay, but it doesn’t make it an exceptional film on arrival either. Just average.
Now therefore, Princess Aurora, who reigns over the kingdom of the moor -populated of fairies, will marry Prince Philippe who will inherit the human kingdom. Maleficent, a mother-in-law of Aurora, refuses the union: so much the better, since Philippe’s mother, Queen Ingrith, simmers a genocide of the fairy people in Loucedé. At the same time, Maleficent (Angelina Jolie, still producing, is curiously little present on the screen) will find her people of winged fairy and discover the mystery of his origins.
The good idea is to have made Michelle Pfeiffer the big bad guy of this Evil power (we assume that the Mistress of Evil of the original title, it is she), a great militarist nasty who precisely breaks the fatality of appearances and Character design who encloses you in a destiny; The rest is a story of fantasy so classic that it could have been written by a synopsis generator. The bestiary is also without great imagination (unless you consider what Warwick Davis are in the shoes of a grumpy gnome and handyman seems to you the idea of the century), little renewed compared to the first film. The people to which he belongs to evil are not a band of angels of cool darkness but a gang of rastas barely badass, without this making stake in history (apart from their religion: they idolize literally A twist of the script, you will understand when you see the film).
The power of evil does not manage to inject chaos into the game of appearances, and the film appears to be very harmless. Planed by its potential audacity, deprived of blood in its veins. Paradoxical for a film that wants to upset the imagination of fairy tales. There remains a very beautiful image: evil forced to veil his black horns so as not to shock during an official dinner. The fabric then gives him the appearance of a lady of darkness arose of a miniature of a medieval nightmare book. It’s beautiful, but it’s little, it’s all the time AVERAGE And it’s a shame, because Disney has the living forces necessary to make a fairy tale film that is neither in automatic pilot nor in Crash test WTF: The pretty fantasy tale Nutcrackers and the four kingdomswent unnoticed last year and co-produced by Joe Johnston (Rocketeer,, Captain America), had much more charm, originality and style. No, decidedly, Maleficent: the power of evil is not a bad film, it is just made like that.
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